how greedy quantifier works

I want to understand how does greedy quantifier works(i did not understand the above output) as far as i know it scans the entire source and then reads backwards and finds the rightmost match?

Regex x* should give me the index of patterns matching with zero or more occurences of x in the source string yyxxxyxx. The source string has length 8 and its 0 based index . How come i m seeing 8 in the output if the last character in the source has 7 index?

- at the first y, it finds 0 x's - a match is found at index 0. - at the second y, it finds 0 x's - a match is found at index 1. - at the first x, it finds 3 x's - a match is found at index 2. ...(other 2 x's already part of a match in previous find)... - at the third y, it finds 0 x's - match is found at index 5 - at the fourth x, it finds 2 x's - match is found at index 6 ...(other 1 x is already part of a match in previous find)... - at the end of the string it finds 0 x's - a match is found at index 8

The last one is the most difficult to understand. Think of it as a hidden 'end character' of a string considered in a match.find(). The key to this is we are searching for "0 or more" - and that when a match is found, it is removed from consideration.